would you befriend them if you had the choice back then?
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Absolutely no! My former friends just bullied me. They were not my actual friends to begin with. I was just stuck with them. I don’t think they even liked me, I mean at all. They ruined my self esteem and confidence. Made me hate myself etc.
Fu-ck them!
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All the friendships I lost due to psychosis, I can only blame the illness for. People don’t know how to deal with psychosis
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similar to mine Speedy, I trust no one now
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true friends never give up on each other
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Yeah, the hard truth is one has to be ego in this world. Because the world is filled with a-holes.
on a brighter note good people still live on Speedy
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Stigma I understand the reasons why
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I have one friend I left that I sometimes regret, but at the same time there was good reason to get out. I kind of felt that all the positive things I tried to communicate to him just rubbed off. But maybe I should have kept at it. Idk. I tried for 10 years.
As soon as I started struggling with my mental health the last couple years of high school, all my “friends” started ghosting me and wanted nothing to do with me. Fuuck them!
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I would keep my one friend who still talks to me but â– â– â– â– the rest of them
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Same with my friends. We had some good times and times when we got along but they wrecked my confidence.
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Me and my old friends have grown apart, I’ve leveled up and don’t fit in with them anymore.
I still have an awesome personality and can make new friends but I prefer to be lone wolf, my dad was a lone wolf so I guess it runs in the family lols.
Not everyone lives a lifestyle like I do lols it’s pretty rare to come by.
I tried to in adulthood. My mom says it’s because I didn’t reach out to them when I went to college, but they never reached out to me either. My college friends weren’t for sh. They tried to obtain an image and one of the girls they were friends with was a jerk. They didn’t reach out to me either so I just stopped talking to them.
There were no friends pre illness.
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Id talk to all of them, but not really interested in hang out anymore.
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Right now I’ve got four good friend s, one of them is my BFF. My BFF I’ve known since we were 14 and we are 55 now. When I was in the psych hospital five times in a row from 2021-2022 when I got out she drove six hours to stay with me and my wife for a week. Like she used all of her time off to be there for me when I really needed her.
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I’ve always had lots of friends.
Last four or so years of life I’ve burned heaps. I don’t tolerate the political crap these days but …I still catch up with a friend I met when I was 12. Another 13…Another 15.
It’s not a drama but I’ve learned at soon to be 56 years of age to be a bit more discerning. Keep those who build you up and support you. You support them and it’s all good but mates are mates and stuff the haters.
Last two years I’ve dumped a lot of old friends from way back but it was their ttreatment of me. Not them.
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No I would have run a mile for all but a few
All my dearest friends are from 20+ years ago. People I went to school with, junior high and high school people. I have very few new friends… but the people in my past, not my dearest friends, I don’t want to see anymore. People I went to school with. I haven’t gone to any reunion parties and stuff like that, I was very mentally ill already in junior high school so yeah, I have no desire to meet anyone from that time.
My best friends I’ve known most of my life and they are very dear to me.
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